etch

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

transitive v. To cut into the surface of (glass, for example) by the action of acid.

transitive v. To make or create by this method: etch a design on glass.

transitive v. To impress, delineate, or imprint clearly: a landscape that is forever etched in my memory; trees that were etched against the winter sky.

intransitive v. To engage in etching.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.

v. To engrave a surface.

v. To make a lasting impression.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A variant of eddish.

intransitive v. To practice etching; to make etchings.

transitive v. To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid.

transitive v. To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as a plate of metal.

transitive v. To sketch; to delineate.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To cut or bite with an acid or mordant; specifically, to engrave by the use of a mordant: as, to etch a design on a copperplate: applied in the fine arts either to a design or to the plate upon which it is made. See etching.

Neomagic MagicGraph128XD graphics - apparently "Works perfectly with the NeoMagic Framebuffer Driver in the Kernel 2.6.12 using the following configuration (Debian GNU/Linux" etch "defaults):" according to ThinkWiki, and

We * have not* in 1.0.2 changed the package names from "etch" to "org. apache.etch", that change will be in our next release, apache - etch-1. 1-incubating, which will be ready for release in another 2-3 weeks.